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No. 449,360. Patented Mar.31,1891.

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I E. E. BRADLEY. REELING MACHINE- No. 449,360. Patented Mar. 31, 1891.

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EDVARD E. BRADLEY, OF STONINGTON, OONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE ATVOOD MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

REELlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of 'Letters Patent No. 449,360, dated March 31, 1891. Application filed January 11, 1890. Serial No. 336,649. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, EDWARD E. BRADLEY, of Stonington, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Reeling-Machines,

of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accomlmnying` drawings.

This invention may be applied to reelingio machines for feeling Various fibrous materials, and is especially adapted for reeling-machines for winding or reeling silk warp. In such machines there is employed a carriage which carries reeds and is commonly known as the reed-carriage, and which has a travcrse motion imparted to it. l

The improvcment relates to the means of supporting and driving such carriage; also, to registering apparatus for registering the amount of yarn that is wound, and to devices in connection with such registering apparatus to effect the stoppage of the machine after a certain determined length of yarn has been wound.

Figure l in the accom panyin g drawin g's represents a front elevation of the machine einhodying my iniprovelnent. Fig. 2 represents a transversevertical section taken close within the left-han d -side frame and viewed toward the right. Fig. 3 represents a horizontal section of the parts at the left-hand side of the machine, taken in the line xw of Fig. 2, the parts exposed to view in said figure constituting the principal parts of the stop-n1ot-ion. Fig. 4: represents a central transverse Vertical section of the reed-carriage, the pa-rts for 'supporting it, and its driving mechanism. Fig. is a plan View of the parts shown in Fig. 4:. Fig. 6 is a side view of a portion of the lefthand end of the machine, including the registering mechanism. Fig. 7 is a plan corresponding with Fig. 6, showing the upper part of the framing in section in the line y y of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a plan view of a bell and its striking mechanism employed in connection with the registering apparatns, as hereinafter descrihed. Fig. 9 represents a Vertical section of the mechanism for striking,` the said hell. Figs. 1, 2, and 3 are on the same scale.

Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 are on a larger scale, and Figs. 8 and 9 on a still larger scale.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A 'A A' A' A2 constitute the framing of the machine, A A hein g side frames or standards, 5 5 A' A' being ordinary girts or stretchers between the lower parts of the said side fraines, and A2 being a horizontal girt, which will be hereinafter more particularly described, between the upper front parts of the side frames.

B is the main shaft, to which power is applied for driving the machine, said shaft being supported in hearings in the upper parts of the side frames.

O is the traverse-screw, which serves to support the reed-carriage D, as wellas to produce the traverse movement thereof, the said screw being journaled in bearing's in the side frames A A in such manner as to be capable of rotary motion, but to he eonfined 7c lengthwisc.

E is the l'eel, which may be of ordinary construction, and the shaft E' of which is supported in bearings in the hack part of the side framing. The reel derives motion, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, from the main shaft B through a pinion B' on the said shaft B, an intermediate spur-gear F, with.vA which said pinion gears, and a spur-gear E2 on the reelshaft gearing with said intermediate gear F. The latter gear turns freely on a stud F', secured to the left-hand side framing. The traverse-screw O also derives motion from the said gear F, before mentioned, through a train -of gearing and shafts, as follows: G is a short horizontal shaft, which turns freely in a box G', provided in the left-hand side framing. This shaft is provided with a spur-gear G2, through which it receives motion from the gear F, the said shaft being also provided go with an endless screw G3, which engages with and drives a worm-wheel a, fast on the lower end of an inclined shaft ct', which works in bearings a, secured to the side frarning, and the upper end of which is furnished with a beVel-gear ofi, which gears with and drives a bevel-gear Z), fast on the traVerse-screw O. The traverse-screw produces the traverse of the carrage by its threads engaging with a worm-gear c on a shaft c', which Works in ioo bearings in the said carriage, and on which is a spur-gear 02, which gears with a fixed horizoutal toothed rack (Z, the said screw turning the said worm-gear, shaft, and spur-gear, and the spur-gear being thus caused to run along the rack, taking the carriage with it. The said carriage D is supported upon the traverse screw by means of two boxes e, (see Figs. 1 and 5,) provided on the said carriage, and which are bored to fit the exterior of the screw-threads, so that the screw may rotate freely within the said boxes and the carriage mayslide freely along the screw, as it is thereby caused to make its traverse in front of and parallel with the reel through the worm-gear c and spur-gear 02, as just described. It will thus be seen that vthe screw supports the whole weight of the reed-carriage, as well as serves to produce the traverse movement thereof.

The carriage, except as to the provisions for supporting it and producing its traverse, as above described, may bc substantially like those common to reeling-machines. It is represented as provided, as is usual, with two reeds I I' and two parting-bars 12.

To prevent the carriage from swinging on the traverse-serew and to assist the said screw in guiding it, a fixed straight guide d' (see Figs 1, 2, and 4) is provided on the horizontal girt A2 below and in front of the teeth of the rack d, and a flange dz is provided on the lower part of the carriage to run against this fixed guide d', the carriage being` so balanced upon the screw that its weight will keep the said fiange d2 against the said guide. In order to provide for this guide being adjusted parallel with the axis of the said screw, the girt A2 has its ends adj ustably secured to the side franoing A, as shown in Fig. 6, by bolts C14, which pass through slots d (see also Fig. 4) in flanges provided at the ends of the said girt, the said flanges permitvtin g the backward and forward adjnstment of the ends of the said girt.

In order to provide for moving the carriage along the rack quickly by hand, a clutch f' is provided between the worm-gear c and the spur-gear C2 of the carriage. The worm-gear o is fast upon the shaft c', and the spur-gear G2 is fast upon a hollow shaft C3, which works in a bearing 04 in the carriage. The shaft c' has a bearing in a hanger 05, (see Fig. 4,) affixed to the carriage and a bearing in the hollow shaft 03. The member f of the clntch is provided on or firmly secured to the wormwheel c and fast to the shaft o'. The meinber f' of the clutch is fast to the spnr-gearc2 and hollow shaft 03. A hand-wheel cG is screwed to the hollow shaft G3 of the spnr-gear 02. On the end of the shaft c' of the wormgear c there is a screw-thread 07, to which is fitted a nut 08, which bears against the outer end of the hollow shaft 03. By screwing up this nut c8 against the end of the said shaft 03 the two members of the clutch are tightened together and the spur-gear is made fast to the worm-gear, so that when the worm-gear is turned by the traverse-screw it lcanses the spur-gear to run along the rack. Then the nutaS is unscrewed, the clutch is loosened, and the spur-gear 02 can be turned by the handwheel 0G for moving the carriage along the rack, the shaftc' and the worm-gear being thus free to tufn, while the worm-gear rnns freely along the threads of the screw, as upon a rack, without any effect.

H is a registering-wheel fitted to turn freely on a fixed stud T-I' 011 the eXterior of the lefthand side framing. This registering-wheel has upon its peripherical face a graduated scale, as shown in Fig. 7 representing yards or other measurements. It is also furnished on its periphery at one side of the graduated face withteeth t, which engage, as best shown in Fig. G, with an endless screwg on ashaft g', arranged in bearings g? outside of the side frame, and which has on its forward end a worm-gear Q3, which gears with an endless screw (/4 on the shaft G, before described as forming part of the train of gearing for driving the traversescrew. The said endless screw Q4 drives the worm-gear gg, shaft g', and en dless screw g, and the latter drives the registering-wheel. The bearings Q2 for the shaft g' are not attached directly to the framingA, but are constructed on or secured toa hanger 112, which is pivoted at its front end to the side frames by means of a pin h, and the rear end of which is capable of being lowered far enough to let the endless screw g out of gear with the teeth of the registering-wheel for the purpose of permittin g the said wheel to be run back by hand to the position for starting the measurement, which position is determined by a projection h' on the said wheel coming in contact, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, with a fixed stop-finger 712, -secured to the side framing. One edge of this projection h' is on the zero-line of the scale, and one edge of the finger h2 serves as an index to the scale on the peripherical face of the registering-wheel and as a permanent starting-point for the registering-wheel. The rear end ofthe hanger H2 is supported in a proper position to bring the endless screw g into gear with the teeth of the registering-wheel by means of a load ed lever 713, which is pivoted at hAK to the side framing, the said lever holding the said hanger up against a stop h, secured to the side framing in such a position that the top and bottom of the thread of the endless screw q do not bind against the bottoms and tops of the teeth of the registering-wheel. TvVhen it is intended to throw the endless screw g out of gear, the operator with one hand rai-ses the loaded end of the lever 713, and thns permits the rear end of the hanger to fall as far as necessary, while with the other hand he turns the registeringwheel to the zero position. Then the registering-wheel is thns placed, the operator lets go the loaded lever, which throws the hanger H2 up to its place against the stop 72,5.

The registering-wheel H is provided on its outer face with a number of projections t' for the purpose of ringing a bell J every time a certain length of yarn has been reeled. In

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the example of the invention represented one revolution of the registering-wheel registers three hundred and sixty yards of Warp reeled, and there are nine projectious z' for ringing the bell, thns causing the ringing` to take place after the reeling of every forty yards. The bell J is secured in a small frame J "(see Figs. 6, 8, and 9) by a screw J 2, which also serves the purpose of securing the said frame J' to the framing of the machine. The bellhammer J swings on a fixed pin j, secured in the fraining J and the shank of the hammer has on it a forward projection j', which comes between the two fork-li'ke prongsjv2 js, provided on the hub of a trip-lever J '1, which also turns freely on the pin The saidlever .I1 occupies a position to be struok by the projections i of the registering-wheel during the rotation of the latter. A light coil-spring ji' connects the hammer J3 with the frame J', and so holds the hammer just clear of the bell, as shown in Fig. G, while the trip-lever J 4 is left free, the lower prong of the fork of the lever then resting against the projection j' of the hammer, as shown in Fig. 9. The registering-wheel, while the reel is in operation, rotates in the direct-ion of the arrow upon it near the ball in Fig. 6, and by its rotation the projections 'i are caused to come in contact with and depress the lever J 4, the prong js of which is thus caused by its action on the projeotion j' on the haminer to raise the hammer, and at the same time to wind up and increase the tension of the spring ji, and when the projection passes the lever J4 the spring is caused to react upon the hammer and make it strike the bell. VVhen the registering-wheel has been thrown out of gear by the machine and has been turned backward by hand to reset it to zero or the starting'- point, asshown in Figs. G and 7, the projections Z on the wheel, striking the lever J i, knock it upward without any action on the bell-hammer. During this last-described action the prongj2 of the fork of the lever is arrested by the projection j' on the hammer to prevent the said lever from flying over out of an operative position.

In order to provide for the stoppage of the machine after a determined quantity or length of yarn has been reeled, I provide on the registering-wheel II a projeeting finger k, for the purpose of Operating a stop-motion by which the machine is thrown out of gear. In order to make this finger variable in its action to stop the machine after any determined quantity of yarn has been wound, I construct this finger 7,; on an arm K, which is pivoted centrally to the regstering-wheel, and which may be secured by a clamping-screw Za', passing through it to either one of a number of tapped bosses 752, provided on the outer face of the said wheel. To provide for a closer adjustment than could be provided by simply shifting the arin K and the clamping-screw 7a' from one boss kz to another, the said arin is construoted,` as shown in Fig. 6, with a slotted segment 7d), said screw Zt' passing through the slot in this segment. A stop-motion is represented in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and is also partly represented in Figs. 6 and 7. In Figs. 1 and 7 the pinion B', employed on the drivingshaft to give motion, as hereinbefore described, to all parts of the machine. has provided on it or attached to it one member Z of a clutch, the other member Z' of which is firmly secured upon the said shaft. The pinion B' is fitted loosely to the said shaft, and is, with its attached member Z of the clutch, capable of being movedlengthwise on the shaft by means of a forked lever L, which works on a fiXed fulcrum m, secured to the framing of the machine. The lowerend of this lever is connected by a short connecting-link m' with a horizontal lever M, which is fulcrumed at M' on one of 'thelowergirts A'of the fraiming. This lever M is connected with the otherlower girt A' by means of a spring 'm2, which exerts a constant tendency to pull the said lever in such direction that by its action on the upright lever it will cause the latter to act upon the pinion B' and throw its attached member Z of the clutch out of gear from the other member Z' of the clutch which is fast to the main shaft. The pinion B' and its attached memberZ of the clutch are held in gear against the pull of the spring m2 by means of a hook N on the lower end of a nearly upright shaft N',which is fitted to bearings a, secured to the framin g, the said hook engagin g with a projectionm3 on thelever M, as shown in Fig. 3. This shaft N' has applied, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, between it and the upper bearing n a coilspring n', which tends to throw the hook N into engagement with the projection m3. On' the upper end of the said shaft N' is an arm NE, which projects outward from the side of the framing within reach of the finger 7.; 011 the registering-wheel. W'hen during the rotation of the registering-wheel the finger 7a is brought into contact with the projecting arni Nit is caused by its action on said arm and the shaft N' to throw back the hook N from the proj ection m3. The spring m2, being then allowed to act upon the lever M and through it upon the lever L, shifts the pinion B' and its attached meinberZ of the clutch out of gear with the member Z' of the clutch, which is fast on the main shaft, and the machine stops.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the reel, of a traverse-screw for moving a reed-carriage lengthwise of the reel, fiXed bearings in which said screw is jonrnaled, and a reed-carriage supported on said screw and free to slide lengthwise thereof, substantially as herein setforth.

2. The combination, With the reel and the supporting-frame therefor, of a fixed toothed rack arranged lengthwise of the reel, a traverse-screw journaled in the said frame parallel with said rack, mechanism, substantially as described,'for turning said screw, a reed- IOC) IIO

oarriage supported'on said serew and free to slide thereon independentiy of the rotation thereof, a shaft journaied in said oarriag'e, a form-gear on said shaft engaging with said screw, and a spur-gear on said shaft gearing with said rack, subst-antiaily as and for the purpose herein set forth.

The combination, With the reel, the traverse-screw, .and mechanism, substantially as deseribed, for Operating' them, and the fixed rack, of the reed-carriage supported on said screw, the shaft jonrnaied in said carriage, the worm-gear gearing With said serew, and the spnr-gear gearing With said rack, one of said gears being1 fast and the other loose on said shaft, a ciutch and means for engaging and disengaging the same between said spurgear and worm-gear, and a hand-gear fast to said spnr-gear, all snbstantiaily as heroin described, to provide for traversing' the earriage either by means of the screw or by hand.

4. The combination, With the reel and the end frames or standards, of a traverse-screw and jonrnai-boxes therefor supported by said frames or standards, a reed -oarriage supported on said sorew and free to slide thereon independentiy of the rotation thereof, a stationaryg'irt carrying` a toothed rack between said frames or standards, a shaft on said carriag'e, a spnr-gear and a worm-gear on said shaft gearing, respeotively, with said rack and serew, and a guide on the said girt to direct the oarriage on the traverse-screw in proper relation to the reei, aii substantiaily herein set forth.

5. A registering'avheel fora reeling-machine having on its peripherieai face a scale of measnrements and having teeth on its periphery for driving it, in combination With a driveshaft having a swinging movement toward and away from the periphery of the wheel and provided with a worm adapted to ene'age the teeth on the poriphery of the wheel, substantiaily as herein desoribed.

0. The combination, With a reei, a driveshaft, a register-wheel, gear for transmitting the motion of the said shaft to the reei, and worm-g'ear for transmitting the motion of said shaft to the regiStering-wheei, the Worm forming` a part of said worth-gear having` a swingin g movement toward and away from the registering-Wheei, of a stop-motion between the registering-wheel and the aforesaid driveshaft and a finger carried by said registering-Wheel for disengaging' said stop-motion after a given quantity of Warp-thread has been reeled, snbstantialiy as set forth. i

7. The combination, with the registeringwheel lof a reeling-machine, having on its periphery a scaie and a projection at the zeroline of said scaie, of afixed finger on the framin of the machin e, substantially as described, the said finger serving as a stop to the said projection, a permanent starting-point for the wheel, and an index to the scaie, as herein set forth.

8. The combination, Wit-h the main shaft the traverse-screw C, and the hevet-gear Z] thcreon, and the reeistering-Wheei H, having` a scaie on its periphericai face and teeth t on its periphery, of the shaft G, geared With the main shaft B, substantially as desoribed, the two intermediate shafts g' a' between said shaft G and the registering'-Whee1 H, and traverse-s'erew O, respectiveiy, the two endless serews (/lL Gr53 on the said shaft G, the the worm-wheei Q3 on the said shaft gearing with the endless serew gt, the endless screw on the shaft g', gearing with the teeth on the registering-Wheel H, the worm-wheei a on the shaft a', gearing With the endiess screw G3, and the bevel-g'ear (L3 on the said shaft (1/, f ,rearing` With the hevet-gear b on the traverse-screw, snbstantiaily as herein set forth.

EDWARD E. BRADLEY.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNEs, K. E. PEMBLETON. 

